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Today, I'd like to introduce a new linky to you. It's called "Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow". I plan on this being a way to remind you of past products, show you what's new, and what will be coming soon. By having it be a link-up, you'll be able to check out more great products by other teacher authors. If you'd like to join in, please read this first, and then feel free to link-up below.
Here's my first "Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow"….
When I typed this up, I got it wrong under "yesterday". The new cover version is on the left and the old one is on the right. If you'd like to check out any of these products, you can click here to be taken to The Schoolhouse on TPT.
If you'd like to link-up, you can find out more information about this linky and the template if you click here. If you'd like to join in, please read this first, and then feel free to link-up below.
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The dietetic value of nutrient has been well reported, but not their vibratory benefits. Every meal inside its own nature vibrates at its own rate and that specific rate entering the body modifies the body's rate.
If it's a disharmonic rate, the rate of the body is ruffled and interfered with and discord issues from this feud. The vibratory approach of reception has half to do with the food's value. If one eats in the possession of annoyed vibrations, the vibrations of the food are over-powered by the short, stabbing indignant vibrations with ghastly reds and blacks and grays, mingling and sometimes a glow of burning repellent red all of which can be sensed in the aura by the sensitized eyes.
Its natural vibrations are decreased, pent-up and distorted, so the poison rate is reached and put to its work of lethal annihilation. This precipitated breath of an annoyed person will, injected into a mice, give instant death to the mice. It sets up all the poison rates in all the thoughts and feelings which make the vibratory rate of appetite.
By our vibratory rates at the time we consume, decided by our thoughts and feelings, we tweak the food rates for good or evil, of upbuilding or downtearing, having the urgent values of the food in their standard rate or having them reduced and confused and at work with their harmful rates. For instance by employing Solfeggio forks, we will be able to change rate of the food and energise our mind and body.
The wisdom of living, as to physical as well to psychological foods, and their practice, lies in the vibratory rates of the nutrient and the vibratory rates of the welcome to that food, which welcome includes appetite, manner of feeding, conditions psychological and emotional of the eater, and the physical rate which is native to him. When the physical rate is very well, the rate of the food must be all right, the appetite good and the fashion in which we handle an and welcome the meals very well.
Every single food should be served in all its appointments in a beauty and balance which belongs to the vibratory rate of the gathered people. Nevertheless we will be able to energise the food and drink simply by using Solfeggio frequencies. These ancient healing tones will raise the vibration of your food and drink, and this way you will have more life vitality. This strategy needs more experimenting, but scientists start to provide new exciting info regarding correlation between Solfeggio frequencies and our meals.

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September 1987By James J. Thompson Jr.
James J. Thompson Jr., a Nashville-area writer, is Book Review Editor of the NOR. His latest book (co-edited with George M. Curtis III) is The Southern Essays of Richard M. Weaver.
Exile in the Fatherland: Martin Niemdller's Letters from Moabit Prison. Edited by Hubert G. Locke. Eerdmans. 172 pages. $9.95.
Of Prisons and Ideas. By Milovan Djilas. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. 166 pages. $17.95.
Letters from Prison and Other Essays. By Adam Michnik. University of California Press. 354 pages. $25.
The 20th century boasts a dolorous achievement: its persecuting governments have provoked an extraordinary body of writings by political prisoners. Our century did not invent this phenomenon; to the contrary: in the early days of our era some men even foresaw the approaching end of the practice of incarcerating dissenters. Such optimism was not groundless; even admitting that the habit persisted (the tsar, for example, kept his prisons well stocked, and there were always benighted Latin American despotisms to contend with), it could be blamed on backward or half-barbaric regimes that were out of tune with the enlightened and progressive tendencies of the Western world. Such thinking did not reckon with what would become a characteristic feature of the age: murderous ideologies coupled with totalitarian thugs. Instead of the fulfillment of two centuries of hope for the reign of freedom and tolerance, the 20th century-witnessed the perfection of repression in gulag, concentration camp, "re-education center," and maximum-security prison. The infamy engulfed the globe: Stalin's Soviet Union, Hitler's Germany, Mao's China; Europe, Africa, Asia, Latin America - havens were scarce, refuges few. Iron bar, steel door, and barbed wire became apt symbols of a century that evinced a rage to imprison, torture, and execute.
A world rife with prison cells evokes despondency, yet from these cells - from the men and women who have paced their constricted perimeters - have come writings that quicken hope. They tell of horrors endured, but they also bear witness to the indomitability of the human spirit. Solzhenitsyn, Evgenia Ginzburg, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Armando Valladares: they shock one into recognition of the staggering evil that claws its way out of the depths of the psyche, but they also remind one of the unquenchable humanity that man possesses. To the list of triumphant sufferers one should add the names of Martin Niemoller, Milovan Djilas, and Adam Michnik. Their voices, too, sound across the desolation of our century. Americans must especially heed these voices, must listen attentively to their message, for these men have seen things that we - sated on freedom - can only imagine.
Their names are hardly household words, although two of them - Niemoller, only recently deceased, and Djilas, now an old man - once commanded considerable attention; Adam Michnik is known mainly to those who have charted the fluctuations of recent protest in Poland. Martin Niemoller, then a Lutheran pastor in Berlin, began his sojourn in hell in 1937, when he was arrested for organizing opposition to Hitler's meddling in German ecclesiastical affairs. He spent eight months in Berlin's Moabit prison - a confinement that produced the letters contained in Exile in the Fatherland. Upon his release, the Gestapo seized him and imprisoned him first in the concentration camp at Sachsenhausen and then at Dachau for the remainder of the war. While Niemoller was running afoul of the Nazi authorities, Milovan Djilas, a young Communist, was provoking the Yugoslav monarchy, which rewarded him with a stint in the royal jails. Djilas fought as a partisan against the Germans during World War II, and after the war he quickly ascended to a top position in Tito's government. His apostasy from the true faith landed him in Tito's prisons for nine years, first from 1956-1961, and again from 1962-1966. Polish Communism has its own apostate in Adam Michnik, who has graced Polish prisons with his presence on several occasions.
How does one survive the torment of prison? Tedium and anxiety alternately jerk the prisoner in opposite directions: the sheer monotony of interminable days encumbers the spirit; gut-wrenching fear of the unknown gnaws at the soul. Imagination is the prisoner's relentless antagonist, for as Djilas remarks, in the absence of the known, one imagines the worst. The captive frets over those on the other side of the walls: How is his wife faring? What will become of his fatherless children? Will the regime persecute his loved ones in retaliation for his "crimes"? And what of the cause for which he has been jailed? Will his compatriots falter? And will he, offered the chance to recant, betray the cause? Time: nothing but time - leaden, endless time - in which to agonize over these questions and to dread the future. Death or madness promise the only surcease.
Only the "idea" can save one, writes Djilas; the idea can transform a cell into a realm of freedom. For Niemoller, the idea manifested itself in the utter simplicity of his faith in God. Like St. Paul, he counted it a privilege to suffer for the gospel. He recognized that the Nazis had not imprisoned Martin Niemoller the man, but Pastor Niemoller, the symbol of the Church's refusal to render all unto Caesar. An inspiriting truth bore in upon him: through his irefragable witness the cause of the "Confessing Church" (that part of German Protestantism that scorned accommodation with the Nazi leviathan) would be vindicated. He wrote to his wife: "And I think my imprisonment belongs to God's holy humor as well. First the mocking laughter: We have him now!' And then eight hundred arrests - and the result? Full churches, praying congregations...." Niemoller relinquished his freedom to remain loyal to the faith, but in that relinquishment he gained a freedom that not even death can extinguish: the liberating knowledge that, as he wrote from Moabit, "It's not this little bit of earthly life that is important in the long run."
Milovan Djilas, an atheist, could not turn to God for succor when the Yugoslav government threw him into jail in the 1930s. But this first term was easy, for he possessed "a faith that was stronger than the allure of all of life's pleasures": communism, which he, a young man bursting with the promise of futurity, equated with the dawn of "universal freedom." In the wake of the postwar triumph of communism in Yugoslavia, Tito strangled the idea that had buoyed Djilas through imprisonment and war; repression assumed a new guise and changed its name. In 1956 he found himself behind bars once again, this time for his support of the Hungarians' attempt to overthrow their country's version of "universal freedom."
Here, in the prison of the regime he had helped to bring to power, Djilas grasped the idea ever more tightly. The idea had not betrayed; it had suffered betrayal at the hands of the commissars. Through a long night of the soul, Djilas battled his "own demons and isolation." Doubts assailed him: Was the idea no more than a chimera? His jailers dangled before him the delectable rewards of recantation; what did the idea matter when confronted with the promise of "privileges a hundred times greater than those...already taken away"? But he clung to his faith in the possibility of a free, open society. "Confirmed and final, crystallized in the crucible of pondering and endurance," his belief in a humane and democratic socialist order enabled him to survive Tito's jails; it remains his creed today. As he writes in Of Prisons and Ideas: "The idea as faith is a necessity for all of us. Without it, there is no way out of the present predicament, out of the world prison in which all of us live."
Djilas is old now, but he - and others like him who have been tried in the fires of resistance to communist totalitarianism - has bequeathed the idea to younger men and women. He will die, but the idea will live in the minds of such men as Adam Michnik. Michnik was clapped into jail in December 1981 when General Jaruzelski unleashed his troops upon Solidarity. Released for a brief time in 1984, he was arrested again and sentenced to three more years in prison. Michnik is a casualty in what he calls "this strange war that is a new embodiment of the age-old struggle of truth and lies, of liberty and coercion, of dignity and degradation." He seeks no solace in self-pity, nor does he burn with the embittered fanaticism that tempts the political prisoner. Like Niemoller (but without Niemoller's religious faith), Michnik accepts the role of witness, of the bearer of a truth that cannot be stifled by tanks and guns and cells. During his first incarceration the government offered release if he would exile himself from Poland; he refused: "To forsake your dignity is not a price worth paying to have the prison gates opened for you."
In the West Michnik benefits from a certain cachet for Poland and things Polish that arose with John Paul II's pontificate and the brave resistance of Solidarity. Americans whose previous acquaintance with Poland had never progressed beyond the ubiquitous question of how many Poles it takes to change a light bulb, suddenly began to enthuse over "heroic Poles" and the "marvelous Polish pope." I was no such Johnny-come-lately, for I have long reserved a special place in my heart for the Polish people. Of all Europeans (save possibly the Irish), they appeared most akin to my own Southern ancestors. Poles were a romantic and quixotic people, much given to futile uprisings, noble defeats, devotion to lost causes, and a certain melancholy preoccupation with death. But Michnik - in company with Solidarity and John Paul II - limns a different image: the people of Poland teach us of life more than of death, of steadfast tenacity rather than of romantic gambits, of the long and arduous (and problematical) struggle for victory more than of gallant defeat. In that, one finds a measure of hope in Djilas's "world prison."
The Poles demonstrate that the fate of captive peoples is not the ineluctable choice between resignation to oppression or blood-sodden revolt. Adam Michnik repudiates violence, because he realizes that a decent and humane social order seldom arises out of a baptism by blood. By the same token, he knows that a people cannot forever be denied their freedom. He does not promise the invigorating tonic of instant change or of Utopia aborning. Instead he proffers only the strategy of the "long march": a resistance that seeks small victories and incremental gains, one that "requires consistency, realism, and patience." Through the "idea" that he shares with Djilas, he endeavors to infuse Poles with an intrepidity and resoluteness that will carry them through the darkest days that lie ahead. Michnik's greatest fear arises not from the possibility of failure - for he knows that there are no "final defeats" - but from the risk that the rigors of the struggle will warp the democratic vision. "I pray," he writes, "that we do not change from prisoners into prison guards."
How to obviate this threat? Michnik is uncertain, but he draws confidence from an unexpected source - unexpected for one who is not a Christian. No less than his compatriot Lech Walesa, he looks to the Church to play its role in the Polish drama. He does not want a Church fabricated by liberation theologians who hurl a politicized faith into the cauldron of revolution. "We need...a church that will teach us moral values, defend national and human dignity, provide an asylum for trampled hopes." Far from mere pragmatism, Michnik's call to the Church is rooted in profound respect for an institution that embodies the deepest longings - even deeper than his "idea" - of the Polish people. One wonders if Michnik is not a better "Christian" than many professed Catholics in the West.
One dreams of a world in which such men as Adam Michnik, Milovan Djilas, and Martin Niemoller will never again have to pay for their convictions behind bars. One hungers for a world in which there will be no more Jaruzelskis and Hitlers and Titos (and all the other tyrants, large and small, who have cursed our century) to imprison them. Implicit in such longing is the bitter knowledge that it will never come to pass in this fallen existence. The stories of Michnik, Djilas, and Niemoller - and the countless thousands of men and women like them in this century - evoke a mingling of despair and hope in one who ponders their lives: despair, because they confront one with the palpable brutality of our age; hope, because they did not abandon hope. Adam Michnik speaks for all of them in a letter smuggled out of Bialoleka internment camp in 1982: "You are casting your declaration of hope out of your prison cell into the world, like a sealed bottle into the ocean. If even one single person finds it, you will have scored a victory."


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Things To Consider When Hiring Appeals Solicitors
If you were involved in a legal battle that did not go in your favor, it is probably in your best interest to hire one of the many appeals solicitors out there to handle your case. This is not a concept that is particularly simple, but the following advice should make the process less cumbersome for you.
The first thing you should know is that every solicitor out there does not have experience with appeals. You should not automatically assume that the person who handled your case initially should continue as your case moves to the appellate court. Even if you feel like your relationship was great and you believe in them, it is not a wise business decision. If they are someone who can be trusted, you should certainly ask them for a recommendation.
Even if your current solicitor has some experience with appeals, you should still hire someone else. Your original case was decided based on the information that was presented by this individual. If you bring in a new set of eyes, there may be some area of case law that was not considered before, and it can have a huge bearing on the direction of your case. Basically, it will be in your favor to have someone look at the entire case with a fresh set of eyes.
One thing that many people do not realize is that appeals solicitors are available to help when you are going through your first trial. If your case is particularly complicated, it helps to have them around to digest all of the information firsthand. In the event that things do not go your way and you are faced with filing an appeal, they can step in and handle every part of the process.
You should always discuss the background of the solicitor prior to hiring them. If they are not very experienced, you should certainly be wary. Appeals are usually presided over by a panel of judges, and someone who is not extremely familiar with this process may not know how to draft a written appeal that is effective. A seasoned solicitor will have written appeals so many times that impressing them would be like second nature.
Do not make the mistake of running away from a solicitor because they are charging hefty fees. This is a road that will be very long and it will require countless hours of research and hard work. You cannot expect to pay a low price and receive a favorable outcome; that is not very realistic. In most cases, the amount you pay for this solicitor will be far more than you paid for the one who handled your trial.
As you can tell, much information should be considered before going out and hiring someone to represent you during your appeal. Since you will have to make such a huge financial investment, it is important that you make the right choice. Be careful since your future hinges on this decision.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Panthers quarterback Cam Newton returned to practice Wednesday, although it remains unclear if the league's MVP will play Sunday against the Saints.
Newton took reps with the first-team offense after missing Monday night's loss to the Bucs with a concussion.
Coach Ron Rivera said Newton remains in the league's concussion protocol, and it's too early to know his status for Sunday's game.
"He looked good and threw the ball pretty doggone well," Rivera said. "He was involved in the plays that we had scripted for him and handled those very well."
Rivera said now the team is waiting "with bated breath" to find out how Newton responds today when he reports to work after his first day of practice in nearly two weeks.
"It's all part of the concussion protocol," Rivera said.
Newton, who usually talks publicly Wednesdays, was not available after practice.
Wearing a helmet and his red No. 1 practice jersey, Newton threw passes and joked with teammates in the huddle before taking snaps during the first 20 minutes of action that were open to the media. Newton threw the ball around and jogged during the half-speed portion of practice.
Carolina has lost three straight. But teammates said Newton's return — and the energy he brings with him to work — gave everyone a lift.
"Having the MVP back in your offense is a big deal," All-Pro center Ryan Kalil said. "It's tough especially the way that he's not been around here with the head injury. So anytime someone like that is able to come back, you are very excited."
DECKER TO IR: Jets wide receiver Eric Decker was placed on injured reserve with a partially torn rotator cuff in his right shoulder and will have season-ending surgery. Decker was inactive the past two weeks after being hurt at Buffalo in Week 2, and the shoulder worsening at Kansas City the next week.
CHIEFS STAR CLEARED: Four-time Pro Bowl linebacker Justin Houston was examined by Dr. James Andrews on Oct. 3 and was given clearance to resume football-related activities with Kansas City. Houston has been rehabbing since February, when he had surgery to repair a non-functioning ligament in his left knee.
MUM ON TRUMP: Tom Brady isn't interested in answering any questions about Donald Trump. The Patriots quarterback was asked at the end of his weekly news conference how he would respond if his kids heard Trump's version of "locker room talk." Brady smiled and said only, "Thank you guys, have a good day," before walking away. Last year, Brady was spotted with one of Trump's "Make America Great Again" hats in his locker.
BENGALS: Tight end Tyler Eifert, who appeared to be on track to return from ankle surgery until he had a back issue last week, did not participate in practice.
BILLS: Wide receiver Sammy Watkins won't need a second foot surgery and could return late this season, NFL Network reported.
BROWNS: Rookie quarterback Cody Kessler still has discomfort when he throws but said he plans to play Sunday against the Titans. Kessler hurt his chest when he was hit hard in last week's loss to the Patriots.
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GIANTS: Defensive end and former USF standout Jason Pierre-Paul missed practice with a groin injury.
STEELERS: Former Florida State running back Karlos Williams, a rookie with the Bills last season, signed with the practice squad.
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Dawit Tsige takes Coke Studio Africa on tour through his culture and his studio as he prepares to leave Addis Ababa for Coke Studio.
" I really love my country, and i'm going to miss it, But i'll come back i'll not stay there." said Tsige.
watch his stay at coke studio with other great artists and his "Aman Aman" performance.


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The vice president has great working knowledge of the internal workings of the chapter, and understands the roles and expectations of each Executive Officer.
Alex Carroll
The treasurer has two responsibilities: collecting dues and establishing and keeping track of the budget.
Elijah Reece
The head of recruitment is somebody who reaches out to those interested and connects with them in a way that shows whether or not we would be the right fit for the potential brother.
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The new member leader is in charge of all new members coming into the Syndicate by providing them with the information and tools necessary to succeed.
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This is somebody who is in charge of all events that relate with brothers with their invited friends or brotherhood enhancing events.
Kyle Iemma
This position is somebody who manages and assists problems that arise with a brothers school or job. He can reference resources to assist and manage their issues.
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All information that is communicated online is run by the single position of this manager. The personality and persona of the Syndicate online is managed by this position.
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Our many philanthropic events and motives are managed and run by this position.


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In true Nikita style, I am jumping on a bandwagon hella late and made a Polyvore account. I played around with the features to put together this everyday cosplay set inspired by Rey's costume design in the new Star Wars film.
Picking up on the flowing materials and dirty fabric I chose to go with a grey wrap top with front ties, paired with green high-waisted capri trousers tucked into some sturdy combat boots. We've seen some promo pictures of Rey wearing her goggles so I thought a wide pair of sunglasses would work nicely, plus an added light scarf to
mask your identity cover your head from rain. The brown fingerless gloves mimic her gloves above and give the outfit a bit more of an edge. A leather belted satchel is Rey's bag of choice keeping her hands free to be a motherfucking badass.
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Sadly I didn't have the sense to look for items that are actually affordable. You can definitely look for similar items to create your own Everyday Rey! Then throw your hair in a weird top knot and go save the galaxy.


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I know you're thinking…avocados in brownies, are you kidding me??? Yes, avocados are used for their healthy fats so we don't have to load up the brownies with things like butter!!
These definitely turned out better than I expected. They have a very rich chocolate flavor…think molten lava cake. They are not as sweet as your boxed brownies but you still get a yummy chewy brownie when you want something rich and decadent! Here's the simple recipe.


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Lieutenant General Jameson retired from the U.S. Air Force in 1996 after more than three decades of service. General Jameson's final assignment was as Deputy Commander-in-Chief U.S. Strategic Command. General Jameson commanded the Air Force's 20th Air Force and was responsible for the Intercontinental Ballistic Missile forces of the United States. General Jameson served as Chief of Staff and Director of Command Control, Strategic Air Command and commanded the USAF Strategic Missile Center at Vandenberg AFB, California. General Jameson was instrumental in facilitating Military to Military exchanges with the Commander of Russia's Strategic Rocket Forces. After retiring from the Air Force, General Jameson served as President of Arrowsmith Technologies, Inc., a software development company; Vice President of Alliant Techsystems, Inc., an aerospace corporation; President and CEO of Starcraft Boosters, Inc.; and Executive Director of the Texas Telecommunications Infrastructure Fund. General Jameson is the vice chairman of the Air Force Academy Board of Visitors.
General Jameson received his undergraduate degree in Business Management from the University of Puget Sound, an MBA in Business Management from Ohio State University, and completed the Northwestern University Kellogg School of Business Program for Senior Executives. General Jameson graduated from the National War College and attended theHarvard University Kennedy School National Security Program for Senior Executives.
General Jameson received the Moller Trophy in 1985 as the Strategic Air Command Outstanding Wing Commander. In 2012 the General was awarded the Dr. Jean Mayer Global Citizenship Award by the Tufts University Institute for Global Leadership.


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I had some hard moments yesterday. Just feeling a bit of despair. But I shook it off and got up and started peeling potatoes for supper. There is just something so comforting about making supper.
Amy (14) came into the kitchen and helped me work. She made some corn muffins and heated up some beans. We had a simple meal.
After we ate, I pulled out the Bible and read a couple of chapters to the children from Psalms. Psalm three was so sad. It was written during the time that King David had to "flee" from his son Absalom. This intrigued me and I went back over Scripture and studied. I read this to the children and then found the deep sadness David felt, later on, when his precious son was killed. It just broke my heart because this is what was said in II Samuel 18:33 "And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept: and as he went, thus he said, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! would God I had died for thee, O Absalom, my son, my son!"
This just broke my heart. It reminded me that there is so much more to life than our own happiness. There is just so much going on around us. We really need to keep our focus and do God's work.
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Candace Bushnell Quotes About HomeQuotes about: Home
I think that one of the things that has changed the perception is that there are so many more single people. In New York City, it's 47 percent. When you have that many people who are single, they have a bigger voice and they're more willing to speak and say, 'We're not miserable, we're not sitting at home waiting for Mr. or Ms. Right, we're having a good time.' And I think single people have better friendships.
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- Subject: [PATCH][v5] ACPI throttling: Disable the MSR T-state if enabled after resumed
Previously a bug was reported that on certain Broadwell platform, after resumed from S3, the CPU is running at an anomalously low speed, due to the BIOS has enabled the MSR throttling across S3. The solution to this was to introduce a quirk framework to save/restore tstate MSR register around suspend/resume, in Commit 7a9c2dd08ead ("x86/pm: Introduce quirk framework to save/restore extra MSR registers around suspend/resume"). However there are still three problems left: 1. More and more reports show that other platforms also encountered the same issue, so the quirk list might be endless. 2. Each CPUs should take the save/restore operation into consideration, rather than the boot CPU alone. 3. Normally ACPI T-state re-evaluation is done on resume, however there is no _TSS on the bogus platform, thus above re-evaluation code does not run on that machine. Solution: This patch is based on the fact that, we generally should not expect the system to come back from resume with throttling enabled, but leverage the OS components to deal with it, such as thermal event. So we simply clear the MSR T-state and print the warning if it is found to be enabled after resumed back. Besides, we can remove the quirk in previous patch later. Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=90041 Reported-and-tested-by: Kadir <kadir@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Suggested-by: Len Brown <lenb@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Len Brown <lenb@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx> Cc: linux-pm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: linux-acpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Chen Yu <yu.c.chen@xxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/acpi/processor_throttling.c | 58 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 58 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/acpi/processor_throttling.c b/drivers/acpi/processor_throttling.c index a12f96c..fe6fa02 100644 --- a/drivers/acpi/processor_throttling.c +++ b/drivers/acpi/processor_throttling.c @@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ #include <linux/sched.h> #include <linux/cpufreq.h> #include <linux/acpi.h> +#include <linux/syscore_ops.h> #include <acpi/processor.h> #include <asm/io.h> #include <linux/uaccess.h> @@ -64,6 +65,8 @@ struct acpi_processor_throttling_arg { static int acpi_processor_get_throttling(struct acpi_processor *pr); int acpi_processor_set_throttling(struct acpi_processor *pr, int state, bool force); +static void throttling_msr_reevaluate(int cpu); +static void acpi_throttling_init_ops(void); static int acpi_processor_update_tsd_coord(void) { @@ -214,6 +217,7 @@ void acpi_processor_throttling_init(void) ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, "Assume no T-state coordination\n")); } + acpi_throttling_init_ops(); return; } @@ -386,6 +390,15 @@ void acpi_processor_reevaluate_tstate(struct acpi_processor *pr, pr->flags.throttling = 0; return; } + /* + * It was found after resumed from suspend to ram, some BIOSes would + * adjust the MSR tstate, however on these platforms no _PSS is provided + * thus we never have a chance to adjust the MSR T-state anymore. + * Thus force clearing it if MSR T-state is enabled, because generally + * we never expect to come back from resume with throttling enabled. + * Later let other components to adjust T-state if necessary. + */ + throttling_msr_reevaluate(pr->id); /* the following is to recheck whether the T-state is valid for * the online CPU */ @@ -758,6 +771,43 @@ static int acpi_throttling_wrmsr(u64 value) } return ret; } + +static long msr_reevaluate_fn(void *data) +{ + u64 msr = 0; + + acpi_throttling_rdmsr(&msr); + if (msr) { + printk_once(KERN_ERR "PM: The BIOS might have modified the MSR T-state, clear it for now.\n"); + acpi_throttling_wrmsr(0); + } + return 0; +} + +/* Reevaluate for nonboot CPUs. */ +static void throttling_msr_reevaluate(int cpu) +{ + work_on_cpu(cpu, msr_reevaluate_fn, NULL); +} + +/* + * Reevaluate for boot CPU. Since it is not always CPU0(see + * disable_noboot_cpus), we can not invoke throttling_msr_reevaluate(0) + * directly, thus leverage syscore callback to do it. + */ +static void acpi_throttling_resume(void) +{ + msr_reevaluate_fn(NULL); +} + +static struct syscore_ops acpi_throttling_syscore_ops = { + .resume = acpi_throttling_resume, +}; + +static void acpi_throttling_init_ops(void) +{ + register_syscore_ops(&acpi_throttling_syscore_ops); +} #else static int acpi_throttling_rdmsr(u64 *value) { @@ -772,6 +822,14 @@ static int acpi_throttling_wrmsr(u64 value) "HARDWARE addr space,NOT supported yet\n"); return -1; } + +static void throttling_msr_reevaluate(int cpu) +{ +} + +static void acpi_throttling_init_ops(void) +{ +} #endif static int acpi_read_throttling_status(struct acpi_processor *pr, -- 2.7.4
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Nov 1, 2010
Real Estate.
what baffles me is how people can treat a house the way this one was treated.
I really don't understand it. I'm not house-proud--one impromptu visit to our place would prove that in an instant. But we respect our home--even if it's a rented home--because of all it does for us. Gives us boundaries, protection, walls to paint (okay, this might not appeal to everyone), fresh water and a solid floor. A house gives us a place to curl up when the world outside is just too big/noisy/indifferent/mean. A house gives us a place (and sometimes a reason) to celebrate, a place to welcome and enjoy our loved ones in. Yes, it's "just" a house. I've had to remind myself that a time or two when I was sad to leave one we'd grown to love. But how is it possible to do damage, to neglect caring for, to disrespect this wonderful thing that has done nothing but protect and serve?
I'm sure there's an explanation for why people treat a house the way some people do. Not sure I'd buy anything as a good reason, however.
If we do end up buying the current offer, (or one like it with such "special needs"), I'll have to remain diligent in my efforts to NOT grow attached, and remember to keep my professional, unemotional, business-like head on straight. I can't really make it up to the poor thing for how badly it was treated--it is, after all, an inanimate object, right?
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- Anonymous11/1/10, 5:51 PM
I can't wait until we get a house. Our current rental has walls made of something similar to concrete, so hanging pictures is an event. And I could paint, but then I'd just have to go over them with white again in two years. :/ I would have a hard time fixing up a house and NOT becoming emotionally attached in some way.ReplyDelete
Some folks see their rental homes as not theirs to maintain. It's a house, not a home. They've somehow distanced themselves from that all-important function of personal pride in whatever environment they call "home". Maybe they'd be better off in the garage... I rent and I love my house/home. I've planted and cleaned and tidied and generally tried to keep it from looking like a rental.ReplyDelete
I read your post and feel the power of metaphor within it. Call me cynical, but our society seems to enable such behaviors - whether our "House" is a dwelling or other "belongings" … our bodies, our families, our neighbors, our communities … our earth … our very spirit. For me, this is all part of My Dream - the healing that we all must come around to accepting as our own and respecting it enough to share and pass to our children … our collective future.ReplyDelete
Thank you for being part of My Dream. :)
Montana, I'm surprised they even "allow" hanging pictures on the walls! Our rent houses will not be white...a nice coffee-n-milk color with white trim maybe. ;~) Got sick of living in white walls in base housing.ReplyDelete
Joe Beth, I can imagine you'll leave the place even better than you found it!
Rosemary, I agree our society completely enables such behaviors. It all starts with self-respect, which is an increasingly rare commodity. (And glad to be part of your dream!)


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Finally, the sun shone and it felt like summer, so after pre-school we headed to the river and before I could stop her, Izzy went straight in, wearing her shoes. Before long, E's trousers were also soaked. Shoeless, sockless and trouserless, they carried on paddling and fishing in the lovely, cool water. Izzy has had plenty of practice and proved a bit of a pro, catching dozens of tiny fish and a Lesser Water Boatman. E was less skillful, but enjoyed splashing about. Occasionally, a loud splash revealed the presence of mysterious, bigger fish in the deeper parts of the river. There were a few fairy-like Mayflies about and we saw one being snatched out of the air by a bird. Izzy would have happily stayed for hours, but E got hungry and we had to head home with the promise that we would be back again soon.
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We get to do this together again!
We are just about to break ground on Kairos Village!
Kairos Village will provide counselling, comfort, love, and restoration to children rescued from abusive and sexually exploitative situations. The kids will have an opportunity to attend school, receive regular, nutritious meals, and will be given access to healthcare. They will also have a comforting family environment, with a house mother and 3-4 other rescued children in a safe and secure home.
Kairos Village, which is modelled after our very successful Ferrier Village in Haiti, will consist of several small homes, each housing 4-5 rescued children and a house mother. Every home will have two bedrooms, a living room, indoor plumbing, running water, and electricity. There will be a community centre with a kitchen, dining hall, and the Village offices. A clean water and sanitation system will be constructed as well. There will also be a large security wall built for the safety of the Village children and staff.
This phase we will begin with the water system for the entire Village, Rescue Home #1, and the main building – including a dining area, kitchen, bakery, storage, and more.
We are excited to get this started, but we have a long way to go to finish funding Phase 1 and we need your help to keep it moving forward.
In the last several months, we've been reminded over and over of the importance of this refuge.
- Two young teenage girls were taken out of their home by police because of reported abuse, only to be put back in the home because there was no other place to go. Then they were arrested a few months later for prostitution, forced on them by their uncle.
- An 8 year old who must continue living under the same roof with an abusive stepfather who is awaiting trial.
- A female student at Colegio Kairos who missed school one day. After her mother could not find her, she was rescued by the police before she could be taken to another city by a group of sex traffickers. One member of her family is now on trial for working with the traffickers.
These young women and children need a refuge, whether temporary or long-term, where they will be safe, loved and nurtured back to physical, emotional and spiritual health. The need inspired the vision in the heart of Mercedes Malpartida years ago, and now the need drives us to complete and open this rescue village.
We have the leaders. We have the vision. And now we need a tribe of folks like YOU to come together and help.
So far, we have helped to raise $50,000. This is a great start and has allowed us to green-light this project. But it's time to press forward and finish funding Phase 1. Our goal is to raise $150,000 by the end of the year through both our end-of-year giving campaign and this year's Legacy Project. Let's celebrate the progress and press on toward the goal!
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Danielle LaPorte is an American author and motivational speaker. She is best known for her #truthbomb series, a collection of short sentences and phrases, and a form of typographic art. I happened upon her website while procrastinating something or the other – and boy, was it what I needed. The words she chooses are powerful – some original and some quoted or adapted from popular philosophers and poets. I would highly recommend a trip over to the #truthbomb tab of her website for some midweek inspiration – http://www.daniellelaporte.com/truthbomb/.
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'I Have Always Trusted This Voice':
On Reading & Writing as a Listener
'Ever since I was first read to, then started reading to myself, there has never been a line read that I didn't hear. As my eyes followed the sentence, a voice was saying it silently to me. It isn't my mother's voice, or the voice of any person I can identify, certainly not my own. It is human, but inward, and it is inwardly that I listen to it. It is to me the voice of the story or the poem itself. The cadence, whatever it is that asks you to believe, the feeling that resides in the printed word, reaches me through the reader-voice. I have supposed, but never found out, that this is the case with all readers—to read as listeners—and with all writers, to write as listeners. It may be part of the desire to write. The sound of what falls on the page begins the process of testing it for truth, for me. Whether I am right to trust so far I don't know. By now I don't now whether I could do either one, reading or writing, without the other. My own words, when I am at work on a story, I hear too as they go, in the same voice that I hear when I read in books. When I write and the sound of it comes back to my ears, then I act to make my changes. I have always trusted this voice.'
--Eudora Welty, from her Harvard lecture series, later captured in the book One Writer's Beginnings. You can read more about the formidable Ms. Welty here.


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For the second time in two months, World No. 1 and the best tennis player on the planet by a mile Novak Djokovic defeated Roger Federer in a Grand Slam Final. He defeated Federer in four sets at Wimbledon, followed by another clinical almost predictable ebb-and-flow final at Flushing Meadows.
With his win, Djokovic won his 10th Grand Slam – his 3rd of the year 2015. He reached all four finals, but fell to Stan Wawrinka in a heartbreaking French Open Final, which kept him from winning the 'Grand Slam'. He will, once again, finish the year as World No. 1.


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Democrat voters prefer Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-WI) to lead the Republican Party over 2016 GOP nominee Donald Trump, according to a recent NBC News|SurveyMonkey Weekly Election Tracking poll.
When asked, "Who do you trust more to lead the Republican Party?" 84 percent of Democrats chose Ryan, while only four percent picked Trump.
Independents aligned with Democrats, choosing Ryan to lead the GOP instead of the New Yorker, 62 percent to 24 percent.
For Republicans, 63 percent chose Trump and 34 percent picked Ryan.
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Today I have something a bit different ~ an interview with Detective John Nohea, a leading character in Joe Cosentino's fourth Nicky and Noah mystery/comedy/romance series, Drama Luau. Make sure you read through to the end for an excerpt from the story.
Welcome, Detective Nohea. Thank you for speaking with us today about the fourth novel in Joe Cosentino's popular Nicky and Noah mystery series.
Thanks. It's my first time being in a novel.
How does it feel?
Cramped, since I share the novel with nineteen other characters. But things open up after each murder. And things sure open up for Noah when he and Nicky make love.
How does it feel saying Joe Cosentino's comical dialogue?
Fine. But don't give Joe the credit. We characters tell him what to write.
Joe describes you as incredibly handsome with the body of a Greek god.
You're making me blush.
Before Joe became a college professor/department head and novelist, he was an actor working in film, television, and theatre opposite stars like Rosie O'Donnell, Nathan Lane, Bruce Willis, Charles Keating, Jason Robards, and Holland Taylor. If there is a TV series version of the Nicky and Noah novels someday, who do you see playing you?
Kianu Reeves. Though Joe says I'm cuter.
Why did Joe write a gay cozy mystery/comedy/romance series?
The Nicky and Noah mysteries are the kind of books he likes reading: funny, theatrical, sexy, wild, and wacky with a solid mystery full of plot twists and turns at its center—and a surprise ending! There aren't a whole lot of books like that out there. The ending in book four is especially shocking!
For anyone who hasn't read them (and they should!), tell us about the Nicky and Noah mysteries.
They're set in an Edwardian style university founded originally by a gay couple (Tree and Meadow) whose name the university bears: Treemeadow College. The clues and murders (and laughs) come fast and furious, there are enough plot twists and turns and a surprise ending to keep the pages turning, and at the center is a touching gay romance between Nicky (Associate Professor of Directing Nicky Abbondanza) and Noah (Assistant Professor of Acting). In the first novel, Drama Queen, college theatre professors are falling like stage curtains (while Nicky directs the college play production), and Nicky and Noah must figure out whodunit and why. In the second book, Drama Muscle Nicky is directing the college's bodybuilding competition, and bodybuilding students and professors are dropping like barbells. In Drama Cruise, it is summer on a ten-day cruise from San Francisco to Alaska and back (which Joe and his spouse also did). Nicky and Noah must figure out why college theatre professors are dropping like life rafts as Nicky directs a murder mystery dinner theatre show onboard ship starring other college theatre professors. Complicating matters are their both sets of parents who want to embark on all the activities on and off the boat with them.
Have the mysteries been well received so far?
They like us! They really like us! Reviewers called the books hysterically funny farce, Murder She Wrote meets Hart to Hart meets The Hardy Boys, and a captivating whodunit with a surprise ending. One reviewer wrote it was the funniest book she had ever read. Who am I to argue?
Tell us about the storyline in Drama Luau. But no spoilers please!
In Drama Luau Nicky is directing the luau show at the Maui Mist Resort. He and Noah need to figure out why muscular Hawaiian hula dancers are dropping like grass skirts. Their department head and his husband, Martin and Ruben, are along for the bumpy tropical ride. In addition to the sexy hula dancers, you'll meet a handsome Hawaiian detective (that's me), a Bloody Mary type housekeeper, a cigar chomping hotel manager, the hotel owner and his senator wife who give new meaning to the term family values, and a cute young waiter who wants to be a hula dancer (as Nicky would say) "more than an anti-gay politician wants a dark backroom in a gay bar." Nicky and Noah have the time of their lives solving this one, and also find their relationship in for quite a change.
Who is your favorite character in Drama Luau?
Mark Iona, the Maui Mist Resort waiter who desperately wants to become a hula dancer in the luau show. I also like his secret crush on me.
Do you and Mark get together?
You'll have to read the book to find out.
Which character do you like the least in book four?
The hotel owner and his state senator wife are quite vocal about their religious freedom, in their case meaning their right to discriminate against gay people. Religious freedom means you are free to practice whatever religion you like, not take away someone else's civil rights.
Joe's Dreamspinner Press novellas (An Infatuation, A Shooting Star, A Home for the Holidays, and The Naked Prince and Other Tales from Fairyland) were so well received, the first two winning a Rainbow Award Honorable Mention. What do you say to people who loved them and might be surprised that the Nicky and Noah mysteries are quite different?
I'd ask them to give Nicky and Noah a chance. As my mother said to me as a kid about poi (now one of my favorite foods), "Just try it, you may like it."
And how about Joe's New Jersey beach series?
NineStar Press published Cozzi Cove: Bouncing Back, Cozzi Cove: Moving Forward, Cozzi Cove: Stepping Out, and Cozzi Cove: New Beginnings about handsome Cal Cozzi's gay beach resort on a gorgeous cove. Joe spent his summers as a kid on the Jersey Shore, so it's a special place for him. The first novel was a Favorite Book of the Month on The TBR Pile site and won a Rainbow Award Honorable Mention. I love the intertwining stories so full of surprises. Some reviewers have called it a gay Fantasy Island. Maybe Joe will let me check in there one day.
What's next for you and Nicky?
Drama Detective, book five, releases in six months. Unfortunately, I'm not in it, but there are a bunch of terrific new characters, and the return of the much-loved regulars.
How can your readers get their hands on Drama Luau, and how can they contact you?
The purchase links for Drama Luau are below, as are Joe's contact links, including his web site. Joe loves to hear from readers. You can get to me through him!
Thank you for visiting with us today.
My pleasure. So, grab your plate at the buffet table, and take your front row seat for the luau show. The grass curtain is going up on Drama Luau!
DRAMA LUAU (a Nicky and Noah mystery)
a comedy/mystery/romance novel by JOE COSENTINO
Theater professors and spouses, Nicky Abbondanza and Noah Oliver, are on their honeymoon at a Hawaiian resort, where musclemen in grass skirts are keeling over like waterfalls. Things erupt faster than a volcano when Nicky and Noah, along with their best friends Martin and Ruben, try to stage a luau show. Nicky and Noah will need to use their drama skills to figure out who is bringing the grass curtain down on male hula dancers—before things go coconuts for the handsome couple. You will be applauding and shouting Bravo for Joe Cosentino's fast-paced, side-splittingly funny, edge-of-your-seat entertaining fourth novel in this delightful series. Curtain up and aloha!
Praise for DRAMA QUEEN, the first Nicky and Noah mystery by Joe Cosentino from Lethe Press (Divine Magazine's Readers' Choice Award for Favorite LGBT Mystery, Humorous, Contemporary Novel of 2015):
"This fast-paced, hilariously funny, entertaining novel will have you on the edge of your seat as you try to figure out who-dun-it!" Joyfully Jay
Praise for DRAMA MUSCLE, the second Nicky and Noah mystery by Joe Cosentino from Lethe Press (Rainbow Award Honorable Mention):
"reading these books is like watching a fabulous comedic, murder mystery, action, adventure, romantic film." "I was giggle snorting and laughing so much I had to stop reading. Joe Cosentino's writing is absolutely flawless. He's a master storyteller and will keep you guessing and utterly riveted until Drama Muscle's highly satisfying ending. This is an absolute gem of a book, and series." Divine Magazine
Praise for DRAMA CRUISE, the third Nicky and Noah mystery by Joe Cosentino from Lethe Press:
"Joe Cosentino does it again with Drama Cruise, the third Nicky and Noah mystery. I loved the humor, drama, and theater work inside. Plus, the romance and murder investigation keep readers turning the pages. Absolutely, must read this latest book in the series." Urban Book Reviews
Bestselling author Joe Cosentino was voted Favorite Mystery, Humorous, and Contemporary Author of 2015 by the readers of Divine Magazine for Drama Queen. He also wrote the other novels in the Nicky and Noah mystery series: Drama Muscle (Rainbow Award Honorable Mention) and Drama Cruise (Lethe Press), Drama Luau; In My Heart/An Infatuation & A Shooting Star (Rainbow Award Honorable Mention), A Home for the Holidays, The Naked Prince and Other Tales from Fairyland (Dreamspinner Press); Cozzi Cove: Bouncing Back (TBR Pile Book of the Month/Rainbow Award Honorable Mention), Cozzi Cove: Moving Forward, Cozzi Cove: Stepping Out, Cozzi Cove: New Beginnings Cozzi Cove series (NineStar Press); Paper Doll, Porcelain Doll, Satin Doll, China Doll, Rag Doll (The Wild Rose Press) Jana Lane mysteries; and The Nutcracker and the Mouse King (Eldridge Plays and Musicals). He has appeared in principal acting roles in film, television, and theatre, opposite stars such as Bruce Willis, Rosie O'Donnell, Nathan Lane, Holland Taylor, and Jason Robards. His one-act plays, Infatuation and Neighbor, were performed in New York City. He wrote The Perils of Pauline educational film (Prentice Hall Publishers). Joe is currently Head of the Department/Professor at a college in upstate New York, and is happily married. Joe was voted 2nd Place for Best MM Author of the Year in Divine Magazine's Readers' Choice Awards for 2015! Coming next: Drama Detective, the fifth Nicky and Noah mystery.
Web site: http://www.JoeCosentino.weebly.com
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/JoeCosentinoauthor
Twitter: https://twitter.com/JoeCosen
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4071647.Joe_Cosentino
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Excerpt of Drama Luau, Nicky and Noah mystery, by Joe Cosentino
The olive-skinned, barefooted muscular men wore loincloths (malo), coconut necklaces, shell bracelets and anklets, and flower (lei) head garlands. With the powerful emerald mountain behind them, the dancers ('olapa) aerobically executed hand signs, knee sways, and foot stomps toward the turquoise sea (makai), as their deep, full voices chanted to the goddess of the ocean (Namakaokahai). The lead dancer (alakai) and the dance captain (kumu) moved front and center executing their tree in the breeze hand gestures. The dancer helper (kokua) made gestures to the ocean waves behind them.
The 'ukulele, steel guitar, and bass accompaniment ended. The dancers slouched and looked toward the rows of tables and chairs facing them.
"Kimu, stand further upstage."
"Nicky, they don't know what upstage and downstage mean."
"Thanks, Noah. Kimu, stand behind the other dancers, so Kal and Ak are the focus of the dance."
That was me, Nicky Abbondanza, Associate Professor of Directing at Treemeadow College, an Edwardian style private college in the quaint state of Vermont. My husband and the love of my life, Assistant Professor of Acting at Treemeadow, Noah Oliver, is by my side, right where I like him. Why am I directing a luau show at the Maui Mist Resort in Hawaii? Our honeymoon in Maui was a gift from our parents. But when the customers of my parents' bakery in Kansas became glucose intolerant, and the clientele of Noah's parents' dairy farm in Wisconsin found themselves lactose intolerant, Noah and I were left tolerating the bill. So my department head and his husband hit the internet and found this luau show directing job, which came with free airfare, hotel, and food for two. Enticed by the gorgeous tropical location and the gorgeous luau dancers, Martin Anderson, Professor of Theatre Management at Treemeadow College, and Ruben Markinson, director of one of the top gay rights organizations in the country, decided to tag along and keep us out of trouble. Since Martin and Ruben are our best friends, that was more than fine with Noah and me.
Since you can't see us, I am thirty-six, tall, with dark hair, green eyes, a Roman nose, cleft chin and long sideburns. Thanks to the gym at Treemeadow College (named after Tree and Meadow, the gay couple who founded it), I am pretty muscular. One minor thing. Actually, it's pretty major. I have a nine and-a-quarter by two-inch penis, which causes Noah to tell everyone we are "going clubbing" when we have sex.
Noah is handsome with wavy blond hair, crystal-blue eyes, porcelain skin, and hotter and sweeter buns than any found in my dad's bakery. Martin is short, thin, and bald. As an incredible gossip, he resembles an alien looking for a good piece of news to bring back to his home planet. Ruben is tall, thin, distinguished-looking, with salt and pepper hair and two large eyes watching over Martin. Though Ruben would never admit it, like his husband, Ruben revels in the dish too.
I said to the dancers, "The opening (ho'i) number will be fine. Let's move on."
Whereas the first dance was an introduction to the dancers, the second number, in honor of the creation gods (Kane and Lono), is a sensual dance, where the muscular dancers get to flex, grunt, and gyrate.
Sitting next to me at the front table opposite the stage, Noah rested a hand on my knee. "Did my character work with the dancers pay off?"
I nodded. "They all seem like characters to me."
Noah squeezed my hand as the five dancers came on stage, now wearing grass skirts. Kal (short for Kalani), at twenty-five, is tall, strikingly handsome, muscular, the leader of the pack, and he knows it. Ak (Akamu), at thirty-five, was once the stallion of the troupe, but a receded hairline and wrinkles had transformed Ak to dance captain. As leaders, Kal and Ak take focus in the dance numbers, either dancing downstage center or up center on the platform in the shape of a volcano. Pretty ironic since Kal and Ak are ex-lovers and ex-friends.
Current lovers Keanu (dancer helper), at medium height with a growing paunch, and Ahe, young, small, and cute as a button, took their places midstage and looked at each other adoringly.
Finally, Kimu, at medium height with a bull dog face and protruding belly, stood farthest upstage. The only straight member of the troupe, Kimu, said, "Are you girls ready to dance?"
Keanu left his lover, Ahe, and approached Kimu. "What a surprise, Kimu. Liquor on your breath."
Leader Kal added, "Yeah, Kimu, during the last number you were wavering more than the palm trees near the stage fan."
Kimu answered, "Hey Kal, is it true that you gave Keanu a pity lei?"
These guys are worse than the divas I work with in the theatre. "Can we please start the number?"
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Waiheke Island, just 18km from the city, is a popular escape from Auckland City's hustle and bustle, offering a paradise for Aucklanders and backpackers alike. Whether you want to relax on the island, drink wine on a vineyard tour, visit Jazz Festivals or take on some challenging walks, water sports or zip lining through the trees, Waiheke is just the spot for you!
And we're not the only ones who love it here, Waiheke Island was voted as one of the top 5 places to visit in 2016 by Lonely Planet.
Getting there
Waiheke is just an easy ferry ride away. Waiheke Island's Matiatia Bay is only a 35-minute ferry trip from the Auckland City Ferry terminal. The ferries run regularly throughout the day from 5.35am until 11.45pm on weekdays (times may vary slightly on weekends and public holidays). Don't forget to grab your copy of our Ezi Activity Discount Map for 20% Discount with Explore! If you need, you can also take your car with you by car ferry or if your budget bears no constraints, why not take a scenic flight over the islands of the Hauraki Gulf on your way to Waiheke.
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There are a number of different ways to explore this blissful island so take your pick. Hiring bikes is a popular option for many people coming here for beach and vineyard hopping. But, beware, you will be tackling rather hilly terrain so if you need that little extra push up those hills, hire an electric bike. If biking ins't your desired mode of transport, you can hire a car or scooter to get around Waiheke without breaking a sweat! Alternatively, you can take the bus around the Island. For those not venturing too far from Matiatia Bay, there are a several lovely walking tracks nearby and its just a 20-minute walk to the main town, Oneroa. If your a keen hiker, you can take the 2 hour Northern Walk loop (Matiatia, Owhanake and Oneroa) which takes in the Hauraki Gulf and then leads you inland to Oneroa where you can finish for a swim. You can also enjoy Waiheke's beautiful coast from the water by hiring a kayak.
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Waiheke has become a top wine-making region, attributed to the hot dry summers and ideal soil conditions so trying the local produce is a must. Waiheke Island is now often referred to as the 'island of wine' and with over 18 vineyards on the island, it would be a crime not to do a winery crawl. Most island maps will map all of the vineyards for you but pick carefully, all 18 might make it tricky to stay on that bike! Be sure to check the vineyard, wineries, restaurant and cafe opening times as these do change seasonally.
Cable Bay Vineyard
Words cannot describe the views from this place. Cable Bay Vineyard will blow you away with its modern sleek architecture, silver-service restaurant, terrace bar, incredible wine and magnificent views. This is a must but be warned… it is all too easy to get settled in here!
If your here in May and your up for it, why not give the Waiheke Half Marathon (presented by Cable Bay Vineyards) a crack? There is a 21km half marathon, 10km and 2km kids route which take you by stunning beaches, past vineyards and along quiet country roads, finishing at the spectacular Cable Bay Vineyards where you can celebrate your efforts with friends and family and probably a much needed glass of wine.
Onetangi Beach
Onetangi beach stretches over 2 km, offering plenty of space for sun loungers, hungry picnickers, book lovers, dog strollers and frolicking children. This beach is safe for swimming but does often boast some quite large waves for the body surfers and boogie boarders. If you are here in February, you could have not timed your visit to Waiheke better. Onetangi Beach Races are held each year and is always a blast with tractor races, segway races, horse racing and the uniformed services race which sees the Fire Service, Police, St John's and the Coastguard's battle it out.
Poderi Crisci
Take a trip to Tuscany by visiting Poderi Crisci, a top-rated family-owned vineyard and restaurant with Italian flair and a passion for traditional winemaking. Founded in 2008 by Antonio Crisci Poderi Crisci encompasses 7.7 hectares on a north facing slope of a sleepy valley at the end of Waiheke island. Poderi Crisci is all about serving fresh and fine island ingredients in deliciously robust, simple Italian dishes. The ravioli stuffed with braised beef and served with a delicious brown sage butter sauce is amazing.
If you're more of an adventure junkie, Waiheke is not all about lying on the beach and drinking wine. The island offers an array of outdoor activities for adventurous types.
On the water, you can hire a kayak and go on a kayaking tour around Waiheke to isolated beaches, caves and rock channels. Or you might like to learn how to windsurf, paddle board or play on the water trampoline. We also recommend Explore's Waiheke Sailing Experience which is a spectacular way to see the the Island (and you get 20% of with the Activity Discount Map). On land, you can go whizzing through the trees on a zip line and on flying foxes with Ecozip Adventures. Or if heights are not your thing, race down a hill with Waiheke Mountain Bike Club at Onetangi Sports Park. Alternatively, Waiheke Horse Tours offers horse treks with a few of our New Zealand movie stars… horses that starred in The Hobbit and The Last Samurai! Wild on Waiheke also offers a fun multi-day activity package including archery and laser clay-pigeon shooting.
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